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A July 2026 investigation by journalist Wendell Potter's Center for Health & Democracy found that 37 of 70 outpatient behavioral health companies UnitedHealth's Optum division acquired have since closed entirely or closed at least one office, and 108 of 216 individual locations shut down across 21 states.
More than 500 U.S. healthcare facilities, 568 by one count, now operate as joint ventures between private equity firms and nonprofit health systems, a structure that may sit outside the oversight laws seven states just wrote to catch private equity deals directly.